All-time weather records — Sunflower, MS

Record high
109.9°F
July 5, 1921
Record low
-9.9°F
February 2, 1951
Wettest day
8.70 in
November 19, 1948

Climate change signal in Sunflower

3.6%

of Sunflower's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (13 of 366 records since 2015).

0.5%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (2 of 366 records since 2015).

If records were spread evenly across the station's history, you'd expect roughly 5% per decade. Decade-by-decade, here's where each record-breaking day was set:

Decade Heat records set # Cold records set #
1910s
43
61
1920s
72
36
1930s
68
39
1940s
29
38
1950s
64
50
1960s
20
80
1970s
10
23
1980s
15
22
1990s
8
6
2000s
15
6
2010s
22
5

Records are the all-time daily extremes that are still standing — each daily record can only be held by one year. The station's earliest hot record was set in 1913, the latest in 2018. Period of observation: 1913-2018.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 82.9°F — Jan 11, 1916 -7.1°F — Jan 31, 1936 4.96 in — Jan 20, 1979
February 89.1°F — Feb 25, 1918 -9.9°F — Feb 2, 1951 4.86 in — Feb 22, 2018
March 90.0°F — Mar 24, 1929 14.0°F — Mar 3, 1943 7.02 in — Mar 16, 1973
April 93.9°F — Apr 27, 1987 28.0°F — Apr 4, 1915 7.91 in — Apr 2, 2000
May 100.9°F — May 31, 1951 37.9°F — May 1, 1925 6.28 in — May 29, 1998
June 109.0°F — Jun 20, 1936 42.1°F — Jun 1, 1966 8.11 in — Jun 2, 1947
July 109.9°F — Jul 5, 1921 51.1°F — Jul 4, 1961 7.25 in — Jul 19, 1938
August 108.0°F — Aug 8, 1935 51.1°F — Aug 22, 1956 4.25 in — Aug 2, 1941
September 108.0°F — Sep 6, 1925 35.1°F — Sep 25, 1965 7.51 in — Sep 21, 1958
October 99.0°F — Oct 3, 1954 24.1°F — Oct 25, 1965 4.62 in — Oct 1, 2012
November 88.0°F — Nov 1, 2016 14.0°F — Nov 20, 1914 8.70 in — Nov 19, 1948
December 84.9°F — Dec 18, 1924 0.0°F — Dec 23, 1989 7.14 in — Dec 3, 1983

Click a month to see every daily record for that month in Sunflower.